The origin of Mugwort’s name
The origin of Mugwort’s name
Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, was fond of learning from a young age and often went to the mountains to collect herbs. One day, when Sun Simiao and several children played together, a child accidentally fell and sprained his foot. The boy was badlly swollen and could not move. The child sat on the floor with crying painfully. What to do? Sun Simiao had a brainwave and he found a grass and took it into his mouth to chew mush. Then put the grass mush on the children’s foot part of pain. After a while, the children did not cry, and the swelling pain was gradually disappearing. Other children asked what was the grass ? Sun Simiao thought for a moment, thinking, when the children cry always with ah ah sound, this was called ‘ah leaf‘. In English it is Mugwort. Since then, the “mugwort” has been used today.

The legend of mugwort leaf function
In ancient times, a man called Mo Yao saw an old elephant lying beside the reeds and groaning in pain. When the old elephant saw Mo, he raised his front foot, which was tied with a sharp bamboo nail. Mo hurried to the side of the old elephant, pull out the bamboo nail, then the blood immediately gushed out. At this time, one small elephant pulled up a handful of moxa leaves and held them up to Mo. Mo put moxa leaves on the wound of the old elephant. After a while, the blood stopped and the old elephant was able to stand up and walk. Later the old elephant often took his baby elephant to help Mo do some farm work. And more importantly, the people knew this common wormwood leaf was a kind of good gift.
A story that moxibustion makes people beautiful.
A story that moxibustion makes people beautiful.
Bao Gu was the daughter of Bao Liang, the governor of South China Sea in Guangdong Province in Jin Dynasty. She often treated the people, and the local people called her “Bao Xianaunt”. She is the first person recorded about moxibustion.
One day on her way home, Bao Gu saw a girl weeping by the river bank. Aunt Bao went to the gril and found that the girl’s face was covered with brown growths. After a short talk, she learned the girl was deeply sad because of this. After asking the reason, Bao Gu immediately took out the moxibustion from bag, rubbed it into moxa, lit it with fire, and gently burned the girl’s face. Soon after the moxibustion, the growths on the girl’s face all fell off automatically, and from then on she became a beautiful girl.

Moxibustion contributes to good body.
According to the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, Liu Gongdu, the cousin of the Tang calligrapher Liu Zongyuan, lived to more than 80 years old. You should know that in the Tang Dynasty, the average life expectancy of people did not exceed 40 years old.
Others asked him about the art of good body, he said his secret was: often did moxibustion at the Qi Hai point.
Moxibustion has the effect of ginseng, while ginseng is not as cheap as moxibustion.
Moxibustion has the effect of ginseng, but ginseng is not as cheap as moxibustion.
Li Shizhen grew up in a medical family, from a young age, together with his father he went to the mountain to pick herb. Eventually span several decades, he wrote the Compendium of Materia Medica, which must be inseparable from his father. His father Li Yanwen spent his life studying two kinds of Chinese herb, one is ginseng, the other is wormwood. He compared the two kinds of Chinese herb, and finally concluded: Moxibustion has the effect of ginseng, ginseng is not as cheap as moxibustion.

How to make the Moxa cake
Good moxa wool is the key to the effect of moxibustion. We choose the good moxa wool and use the molding to press them into Moxa cake. Concentration is essence.
Moxibustion become popular both at home and abroad.
Moxibustion become popular both at home and abroad.
In recent years, acupuncture becomes popular at home and abroad. The moxibustion has also been revived, and has made great progress. There are some new moxibustion methods such as meteoric moxibustion, match moxibustion, sulfur moxibustion etc. And various modern moxibustion instruments such as electric heating instrument have been invented.
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